We are always delighted
to accept books or manuscripts that fulfill the library's mission:
to preserve and make available items that will contribute significantly
to research in Florida history, that shed important light on regional or
local history, and that chronicle major events.

For more than 50 years
our library has been the fortunate beneficiary of many gifts and bequests
from faculty, alumni, organizations, businesses, and individuals.

Writers, historians,
and archaeologists who have used our library are generous in sending us
copies of any books they produce, knowing that this helps to keep the collections
current and comprehensive.

Our holdings in political
manuscripts continue to expand through gifts from prominent Florida politicians
and their families. These donations of large collections are matched
in quality, if not in size, by the many small collections-of family correspondence,
diaries, and photographs-that have come to us from people in Florida and
throughout the nation.

If you have books,
family papers, or photographs that you think would make an addition to
the library, please contact one of the collection curators. The principal
contact for Florida history is:

The William and
Sue Goza Collection2,500 volumes.
The Gozas were long-time supporters of the university, and their donation
of their Floridiana library brought into our collection a wealth of rare
and unique items. In addition to many beautiful first-edition and
early imprints of such Florida classics as McCall's Letters from the
Frontier, Bartram's Travels, Brinton's Guidebook, and
Williams' The Territory of Florida, we received archaeological reports
by C.B. Moore, photographs of St. Augustine in 1888, and hundreds of works
in Florida literature, natural history, and early exploration.

The 1788 Rocque
map of St. AugustineWe were especially
thrilled to obtain this full-size color facsimile of one of St. Augustine's
most important colonial plat maps. Donated by the Bureau of Land
Management and the P.G.A./World Golf Village, copies of this map now reside
at the University of Florida, at the St. Augustine Historical Society,
and with the City of St. Augustine.

Letters of Robert
Moffatt FlemingFleming was a Scots
immigrant to Virginia who became a major investor and engineer in the field
of coal mining. In 1920 he came to Florida for his health and wrote
to his wife about his impressions of the state. Although the originals
of the letters are now apparently lost, his descendants gave the library
a set of typescripts that have been kept in the family for many years.
Donated by Ann C. Fleming and Mrs. Robert Fleming.

The Papers of Reuben
CharlesThis collection contains
correspondence, bills of sale, merchandise lists and other information
documenting the management of Moses E. Levy's Pilgrimage Plantation in
Alachua County between 1824 and 1826. Reuben Charles acted
as Levy's manager. Letters refer to planting and construction at
the plantation and also contain references to members of the Levy family. The
collection is an important complement to the David Levy Yulee Papers held
by the library. Donated April 3, 1998, by David S. Coleman, Wade H. Coleman,
and David L. Girardin in memory of Virginia Shaw Girardin and Meta Shaw
Coleman.